James A. Rhyno

RHYNO, JACKSON, TONCRAY

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/12/2004 at 19:05:20

James A. Rhyno, South twp., farmer, Sec. 28; P.O. St. Charles; born in Wythe county, Virginia, March 26, 1828; lived there till about seventeen years of age; when quite young learned the printer's trade; after leaving his home he went to Ohio and traveled about as a jour printer for several years; he traveled over nearly all the Southern States in that capacity; he was in the Mexican war; he was in the first regiment of Indiana volunteers, Co. A, enlisted at Greencastle, Indiana; during the winter of 1850 and 1851, he came to this county; he entered from the government 160 acres of land that he still occupies; he now owns 450 acres; he married Miss Harriet E. Toncray in 1858, a native of Abingdon, Virginia; she died Jun 9, 1864, at Des Moines, and left a family of two sons and one daughter: Walter P., Jackson T. and Harriet L.; he married again to Lucy C. Toncray, in 1865, a native of Virginia; she died November 13, 1868;
left one daughter: Lucy May; he again married to Nancy V. Jackson, August 4, 1874; she was born in Green county, Tennessee; they have one daughter: Eva Nellie; his mother was born in Shenandoah county, Virginia in 1802, she being now past seventy-seven years of age, and has traveled across her native State and Ohio, Indiana and Illinois and into Iowa, and never road on a train of cars or steam-boat.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" pages 577, 578